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rationale and highly fraudulent and misleading intentions and misrepresented
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Center for Economic Development
and
World Affairs

1 August 2000

There are many "think
tanks" in the affluent industrialized nations and around the world,
and most claim to be "independent" and dedicated to understanding
the complexities of international affairs. Their achievements often
fall far short of their claims.

We are different. We
are a non-profit international research organization devoted to studying
the complete spectrum of human social behavior -- economic activity,
political, cultural, and social expression, religious practices and
beliefs, international relations, conflict, and warfare. We
examine history not just to have a record of what happened in the past,
but to understand how history has come to influence the world of today.
We are not afraid to speculate about the future, and it is our wish
to be prepared for the new world which is now forming.

Our foremost goal is
to develop a comprehensive, probing, and practical science of humanity,
and to employ this knowledge in helping the billions of people on our
planet connect themselves to the emerging global economy and raise their
incomes. We strongly believe that education is the tool with which people
can raise their standard of living and improve the quality of their
lives. We study the conditions which foster economic development.

OUR
PREMISES:

We know the world is
changing dramatically, and we undertake our work recognizing the following
eight premises:

1.) The world order which
formed following World War II is disintegrating.

2.) The cold war, which
created a bipolar world in international politics and featured competition
between capitalism and communism/socialism, collapsed with the fall
of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Communism and socialism have been exposed
as destructive expressions of human social behavior and a powerful brake
on economic and political development.

3.) New political, economic,
and military alliances are forming in the world.

4.) Asia is undergoing
extremely rapid economic and political development.

5.) Latin America is
undergoing rapid economic and political development.

6.) Europe is uniting.
European leaders are building the European Union and a common currency.
This mega-state will expand to the east and include all nations of Europe,
even Russia.

7.) The colonial nation-states
and neocolonial structures in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, which
were established and organized nearly a century ago, are collapsing.
The great Arab nation is now striving to overcome these artificial and
destructive divisions, and Arabs and Muslims are resolving to unite
and ultimately create their own mega-state and common currency. Only
when they are united will they successfully defend their interests and
abundant natural wealth. [Added Oct. 10, 2000: The disintegration
of these structures in the Middle East and Southwest Asia is still less
advanced than in Africa, but this disintegration is gaining momentum,
and the eruption of violent conflict between
largely unarmed Palestinian Arabs and heavily armed Israeli Jews is
now serving as the primary means by which the impoverished people of
this oil-rich region can stimulate this natural process.]

8.) The colonial nation-states
and neocolonial structures in Africa, which were established and organized
nearly a century ago, are collapsing. Africans and their leaders are
now striving to overcome these artificial and destructive divisions.
As war and civil conflict spread throughout the continent, Africans
are resolving to unite and create their own mega-state and common currency.
Only when they are united will they successfully defend their interests
and the continent's abundant natural wealth. The disintegration of these
structures on the African continent is more advanced than in the Middle
East, and wars are serving as the primary means by which Africans can
stimulate this natural process.

OUR OBSTACLES:

Around the world, and
in the heavily populated cities of Europe, Asia, and Africa, people
recognize that this new world is emerging. As they grow more aware of
the presence of this new world, they are also discovering its strength
and potential, for it will be a world full of opportunity and promise.
It will be a world of unprecedented economic and political development.

The nature of the human
condition will not change, but the billions of people in the world who
have been prevented from benefiting from the powers of knowledge, science,
and technology -- some five billion people
-- will now acquire the tools and confidence to express their humanity.
This stunning human development will not come without its costs, and
other species on the planet Earth, who appear ill-equipped to defend
themselves against the highly intelligent and aggressive human being,
may face annihilation.

This obstacle is daunting,
but there is another obstacle threatening
this emerging world, and it is perhaps even more disturbing.

The United States,
which has dominated the world's economy and its political and military
institutions since World War II, appears unable to acknowledge and accept
the emergence of this new world.
America's hegemony in the western hemisphere, in Europe and Asia, while
the natural outcome of the great destruction and loss of life in World
War II, will in the coming years, as it confronts the aspirations and
material desires of billions of impoverished people throughout the world,
diminish in strength and face frightening
challenges.

As this upheaval in international
affairs approaches, and as Americans are compelled by events to come
to terms with their fate, the billions of poor people in our world will
find themselves facing an unfortunate and no doubt ugly dilemma. Their
yearning for a dignified life, for higher incomes and an improving quality
of life, will not disappear as their own world descends gradually into
chaos, war, and anarchy.

This violent upheaval
will merely serve to intensify their desires and give life to greater
anger and frustration. They will to their dismay discover that their
formal entry into the booming world economy might very well be aborted
by the behavior of the great powers.

The
struggle for power and wealth will have a predictable outcome.
It will be distressing and violent, to be sure, but
it will also inspire a greater tragedy. What may be unavoidable
is a crisis of profound symbolism, an extraordinary event which stuns
and shocks the world. The
United States may be tempted to destroy this new world,
a world which is slowly emerging from the confusion and destruction
of colonialism and communism. That the United
States for decades nurtured and cultivated this emerging world is irrelevant.
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The good will and
idealism
which Americans promoted to great effect since the cataclysm of World
War II will be abandoned,
as well as the international institutions which gave the masses of oppressed
hope and security.With the United Nations,
Americans resolved to transform their energy and idealism into a permanent
international institution, a venerable and august organization of the
world's governments. Its primary aim would
be to reach beyond the practices of the past -- war, plunder, and genocide.

It may have been recognized
decades ago that this ideal was an impossible one, and that the world
could not be changed. The truth, which was probably accepted around
the world, would in the years following World War II be rejected in
Washington. Empire-builders rarely suffer
from self-doubt and skepticism.

The insincerity and self-interest
which five decades ago created the United Nations may also cause its
destruction. Our new world
is under siege, and while communism
may have provided a potent rationale for many decades
of conflict, now the rationale for conflict is rather more ordinary
and uninspiring -- loss of
hegemony*.

What is ironic is also
a sad commentary on the current state of American political and economic
life. The United States was born in revolution, in violent political
and economic revolution. Having been subjected to a colonial rule by
a monarchy whose whims changed with the demands of empire, Americans
sought freedom and self-determination rather than servitude and humiliation.
Once independent, America prospered, for
two great oceans gave it shelter and removed it from the turbulent world.

In large measure,
America enjoyed rapid economic and political development because it
remained for two centuries unmolested by aggressive and violent great
powers.

This extraordinary experience,
which is unprecedented in history, might be expected to fill Americans
with a deep sympathy for the poor and oppressed of the world. The
truth, and it is a surprising one, is rather the opposite.
Instead of embracing at the dawn of the new century the five billion
poor human beings of our world -- and working carefully and deliberately
to build strong relations with these suffering masses -- Americans appear
to have chosen the model of the past. They
have embraced colonialism and imperialism.

This might have been
the natural course for many in history, but
it is grossly inappropriate for the United States.
These teeming masses, who cannot find hope, wishonly to connect profitably to the booming
world economy.

They wish only to
remain reasonably unmolested by neighboring powers as well as by the
voracious, merciless, and destructive great powers. They wish only to
make this connection both stable and permanent, and on terms which are
just and fair.
They wish only to avoid violent confrontations, and decisions that lead
to costly and destructive institutions and engagements. They
wish only to achieve self-determination, and in so doing, raise their
incomes.

These goals have so far
been unattainable. The poor
have failed largely because of their failure to defend their homes,
their natural wealth, and their unity. They have
been molested by foreign powers, and they have lost their dignity and
independence. They have been
divided and exploited.

Economic depression is
the logical culmination of decades of dependence, humiliation, and violence.
It cannot be a coincidence that Africa and the Middle East, both of
which are by far the richest places on the planet in natural resources,
also suffer from two rather glaring symptoms of economic depression
-- capital flight which is incessant and foreign direct investment which
is negligible. Their poverty and weakness ensure that their
natural wealth is rapidly extracted, and on terms that excite the colonial
power and humiliate the colonized.

Around the world, in
the developed world as well as in the developing world, there is a reluctance,
even a great reluctance, to examine and study our new world and to search
for practical options and solutions. Dramatic and profound events are
under way, yet there is no effort to understand and analyze the new
world now forming. It is seen as threatening, and this is no doubt our
most daunting obstacle.

OUR RESPONSE:

In the corridors of power
in Washington, Paris, London and elsewhere -- as well as in the newsrooms
of many of the world's largest media corporations -- we
can witness an audacious but clearly desperate attempt to make the world
conform to an image, a false and pleasing image that was long ago rejected
by the world's people.

Immense
power and wealth is rarely shared, and challenges are
invariably given a hostile and even violent reception. This
is certainly the main cause of war.

Our task is a formidable
one, and one which is spurned by the very people whose avowed job is
to educate the world. Instead, they refuse to confront and shatter the
saboteurs of economic development -- ignorance
and bigotry.

This may appear puzzling,
but in fact it is not: examining the natural world and educating
the billions of people of our new world is dangerous
and fraught with risk. Education
creates understanding and critical thinking, as well
as pressure to rectify problems and bring efficiency and rationality
to the world. This is unwanted
by the powerful and wealthy.

Our response is analytical,
simple, and unemotional. We recognize the urgent need to create a forum
where the new world can be discussed, debated, and studied, though
we also recognize that this analysis must be undertaken in a spirit
of generosity and with unrivaled integrity.

This must be an international
forum of government officials and ministers, of journalists and scholars,
of corporations and businesses, where the
powerful cannot dictate the terms of the debate, and
where the poor and oppressed can express their views in their own voice
and present their problems from their own perspective. Problems must
be defined, and explored. Resolutions may be impossible, and we also
accept the possibility that constructive debate and analysis may exacerbate
tensions, and create yet more conflict.

Yet,
this seems to be the perverse function of knowledge: anger grows and
intensifies as the poor begin to appreciate the real nature of their
problems. They then fight to correct them...

(In
accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research and educational purposes.)

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- "LOVE CONQUERS ALL THINGS" -

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"IF
YOU WANT OTHERS TO BE HAPPY, PRACTICE COMPASSION. IF YOU WANT TO BE
HAPPY, PRACTICE COMPASSION."

- DALAI LAMA -

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"YOU
NEVER KNOW WHAT THE OUTCOME IS - BUT THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS THE BEST PLACE
TO START"

- JULIAN ASSANGE -

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FAMOUS QUOTE -

"Human
beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God - and the only
living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one."